Prof. Dr. Konrad Ottis Professor for Environmental Ethics at the University of
Greifswald in Germany. He has studied philosophy and holds a PhD
from the University of Frankfurt. Since 1997 he has been teaching in the interdisciplinary study course Landscape Ecology and Nature Conservation. He has been and is a member of several councils and committees dealing with environmental policy in Germany including the German Advisory Council on the Environment (until 2008). His main interests are on environmental ethics, discourse ethics, ethical aspects of nature conservation, climate change ethics and sustainability theory.[more titles]

Dr. Ralf DöringStudied Environmental and Resource Economics at the University of
Kassel and has a PhD in economics from the University of Greifswald.
He worked there as assistant lecturer at the Department of Landscape
Economics till April 2009 and now leads the fisheries economics unit at
the Institute for Sea Fisheries in Hamburg. His main interests are fisheries
economics, sustainability theory and concepts of natural capital.[more titles]